National Park Service

May 1, 2020

For a long time, all I had on this page was, "More, ur, something later..." This is just a wordier version of this.

What I plan on discussing here, mostly, is the debate on whether or not the NPS or the USFS would be managing the National Scenic Area when the legislations was being drafted back in the 1980s, and why, today, we have the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area and not a National Recreation Area or, even, a National Park.

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